The Internet seems to have survived my few days away from posting, so that’s good news. My application for graduate school was due, but now I’ve crossed all my t’s and dotted all my… lower case j’s. (Yes, that’s a Wayne’s World reference.) Now, let’s see what fun news happened in my absence.
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Further proof that most in the media are years behind in reporting on comics: this story about how dark, gloomy and morose today’s heroes are. Someone smart needs to make an online map of the industry’s history. Like this.
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Another example of the same trite media coverage of comics comes from The Chicago Sun-Times, on Spider-Man’s marriage being editorially annulled: “Tumultuous uproar among comic-book fans — you know who you are — because Marvel Comics has erased the 21-year marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson.” Why does the writer feel the need for the snide “you know who you are” bit of derision? Also, most writers know sentences are supposed to have verbs.
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The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew are showing up in graphic novels… in India.
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A pedophile joke in an old The Brave and the Bold? Sure enough. Another Urban Myth revealed at CBR.
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Attention high school students in New York and New England: the Norman Rockwell museum is looking for your comic book art to include in its LitGraphic exhibit.
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Boom! Studios announced it was going to do a dual release for North Wind #1 both in stores and online via MySpace, and retailers were irate. Then what happens? According to a press release I just got from Boom! the book sold out in a scant 10 days. That’s a whole lot of brouhaha for a book that’s essentially Waterworld On Ice.
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Another school sees the wisdom in teaching with graphic novels.
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A profile of Adrian Tomine at Mother Jones (coincidentally, where a good friend of mine works).
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I’ve never been overly wowed with comic book “trailers,” but this one for the great French assassin series The Killer is pretty good. Also, a funny joke tagline for this comic would be: “You can’t spell ‘assassin’ without ‘ass.’ Twice.” Sorry, that’s me trying to be funny.
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Here’s a nice story from just south of Atlanta, about Macon-based artists Tony Harris, Craig Hamilton and Ray Snyder being featured in a local art exhibit. The base of the story is that these guys are internationally known artists, but they’re not remotely famous in their hometown.
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An interesting comparison: The Japanese having much more success with manga than American publishers do with comics is a parallel to Toyota dominating GM and Ford.
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New competition is up at Zuda.
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Keith Giffen is the newest columnist at CBR. Go read this right now.
